Julie Grant
Freelance Reporter/ProducerKent, OH
USDA Guidelines Questioned
May 24, 2010
Companies Keep Cosmetics Chemicals Secret
May 17, 2010
Reforming School Food Systems
May 13, 2010
The Incredible, Edible Weed
May 7, 2010
Fixing the Organic Label
May 4, 2010
Bio:
Julie Grant is an independent journalist specializing in the environment-science beat. She is a correspondent covering land use, wetlands and food production issues for the Environment Report, and is a producer for SoundVision Production's "DNA Files", an NPR-distributed documentary series about genetics. Julie has produced pieces for NPR programs including Morning Edition and Living on Earth, and PRI's Studio 360. She worked for 13 years as a station-based public radio reporter, host and news director. In that time, she was named best reporter in Ohio by the Society of Professional Journalists, and won National Clarion and Public Radio News Director, Inc. awards. Julie attended SoundVision's Science Literacy Project in March 2006 and trekked around the Southeast U.S. with the Institutes of Journalism and Natural Resources in 2003. She lives in Kent, Ohio, where she is renovating the Herrick Arboretum and completing a master's degree combining studies in biology and philosophy.